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Swede, Norwegian, and Dane, differing in some minor points, when closely examined, had yet one common character viewed at a distance.

The close of the book is simply the point at which the author has stopped, and, if he has stopped wisely, the reader takes up the tale and goes on with it in his own mind. As for the variance of the close from the forecast of it, Eugenio was less and less dismayed by that, when in the course of time he looked more closely at his own life and the lives of other men.

Flint and Amblen were making fast to the nearest schooner, and a couple of seamen had been sent on shore to cast off the fasts which held her to the wharf. This was the work of but a moment, and the two men returned to the steamer; but they were closely followed by two men, one of whom stepped on the deck of the schooner.

The rolling forest gave him no quarter, but he came on, rocking with weakness, to within a few rods of the shore. Then a half-dozen of his men ran out on the logs, they were packed closely here, caught him up, and brought him to dry ground. They took him to the Bridge House. He was hurt more than he or they thought. The old man and the girl met them at the door.

Arethusa decided, going back to the very beginning for about the hundredth time, and reviewing this Affair in this new light of Miss Eliza's regard of it, that her lips had best be locked so closely together in regard to her Fall from Grace that Inquisitional Torture would not be strong enough to force it from her.

"No, you are at home," she said. "It is I that must enter first!" He followed her docilely, caring no longer to yield to any other will than hers. Within the chateau, thanks to the complicity of the Duchess, the furnishings resembled as closely as possible those of former days. The good fairy had completed successfully two great works: the restoration of the chateau and the building of the asylum.

It was this outer line of strong defence that gave the city which otherwise would have corresponded curiously closely with the fortified city of Quetzaltepec, described by the Mexican chronicler Tezozomoc its most distinctive characteristic.

But low relief, standing between sculpture and drawing, is really more closely related to drawing than to sculpture is really a kind of drawing and this is why so few sculptors succeed in it. It is a kind of drawing but an exceedingly difficult kind the most delicate and difficult of any of the arts that deal with form alone.

Poivrade resembles piquante sauce very closely, differing from it, however, by the addition of wine and higher flavoring.

And the pleasure which the music gave him, which was shortly to create in him a real longing, was in fact closely akin, at such moments, to the pleasure which he would have derived from experimenting with perfumes, from entering into contract with a world for which we men were not created, which appears to lack form because our eyes cannot perceive it, to lack significance because it escapes our intelligence, to which we may attain by way of one sense only.